The field crow

Question

Question: What is the ruling on eating the crow — the crow whose body has both whiteness and blackness, and which, in the maize season, settles on the field and eats the grain that is in the ear?

Answer

Since its food is grain, eating it is permissible without any hesitation: [ar]وحل غراب الذرع الذي يأكل الحب[/ar] “And the field crow that eats grain is lawful” (al-Durr al-Mukhtar, vol. 5, p. 228).

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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